Bug#825931: s390-netdevice virtio interface choice misleading

2016-10-27 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:53:36PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 10/26/2016 05:13 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Currently s390-netdevice in the code supports following networktypes: > > * qeth > > * ctc > > * iucv > > * virtio > > > > virtio is, in fact, a no-op. > > Yup. > > > iucv refer

Bug#829562: s390-zfcp: fail to activate fcp devices for more than >100 fcp devices

2016-07-04 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch >From 0ae9d69941b34728c23a1b844fe3006ed7f7cd88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:45:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] zfcp-config: remove maximum number of FCP devices Previously, the number of FCP devices was limited to 100 for select

Bug#829562: s390-zfcp: fail to activate fcp devices for more than >100 fcp devices

2016-07-04 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: s390-zfcp Version: 1.0.3 Severity: normal Tags: d-i The s390-zfcp module has a hard-coded limit of about ~100 FCP devices for installation. If there are more than ~100 FCP devices, the module fails and the user cannot activate any FCP device for installation. The work around would be to

Bug#816600: [PATCH] Adjust regexpes to include all ipv4 and ipv6 addresses, list all ip addresses (sans loopback) in the template instructions, and use only the first ip address in the example command

2016-04-01 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Dimitri, On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:47:00AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > --- > debian/changelog | 10 ++ > debian/network-console.postinst | 15 +-- > debian/network-console.templates | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > >

Bug#816600: postinst: IPv6 address is not displayed in 'Start SSH' invitation

2016-03-21 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: severity -1 wishlist On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:30:44AM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Hendrik Brueckner > wrote: > > Package: network-console > > Version: 1.53 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: d-i patch > > >

Bug#818592: control: split and improve dependency handling for disk detection

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: s390-zfcp Version: 1.0.1 Severity: important Tags: d-i To improve and provide a "guided" flow, split the harddrive detection dependency for s390-dasd and s390-zfcp as follows: - s390-dasd provides harddrive-detection-dasd - s390-zfcp provides harddrive-detection-zfcp The disk-detect pac

Bug#818586: disk-detect/control: Improve harddrive detection dependency on s390x

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: block -1 by 818591 818592

Bug#818586: disk-detect/control: Improve harddrive detection dependency on s390x

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
ed the bug number for report. For s390-dasd and s390-zfcp, I will also open bug reports to implement the dependency chain. Feedback is welcome. Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik -- Hendrik Brueckner brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com | IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Linux

Bug#818591: control: split and improve dependency handling for disk detection

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: s390-dasd Version: 0.0.35 Severity: important Tags: d-i To improve and provide a "guided" flow, split the harddrive detection dependency for s390-dasd and s390-zfcp as follows: - s390-dasd provides harddrive-detection-dasd - s390-zfcp provides harddrive-detection-zfcp The disk-detect pa

Bug#818611: netcfg: Misleading error message when parsing line with trailing blank

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch

Bug#818611: netcfg: Misleading error message when parsing line with trailing blank

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
is welcome. Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik -- Hendrik Brueckner brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com | IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Linux on z Systems Development| Schoenaicher Str. 220, 71032 Boeblingen >From 944acf2a089e5eb60a76c58d896f8c3713aad0a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

Bug#818591: control: split and improve dependency handling for disk detection

2016-03-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch >From 18604958d335666c4154c1e500dc424aff0c5998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:05:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] control: split and improve dependency handling for disk detection To improve and provide a "guided" fl

Bug#818592: control: split and improve dependency handling for disk detection

2016-03-18 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch >From 967d360afb9d89c5fac42e4590f879d41efbe618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:09:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] control: split and improve dependency handling for disk detection To improve and provide a "guided" fl

Bug#818595: dasd-config: allow users to re-format DASDs in non-expert mode

2016-03-18 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
on the format status a meaningful default is set. Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik >From 00784c5bbd3a88e2ba6a06a1375a214babbdf540 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:35:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dasd-config: allow users to re-format DASDs in non-expert m

Bug#818586: disk-detect/control: Improve harddrive detection dependency on s390x

2016-03-18 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch >From 131e2f4325e3203e6ac30ffe38005dfe01d96fcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:22:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] disk-detect/control: Improve harddrive detection dependency on s390x On Linux on z Systems, there are two major d

Bug#816600: postinst: IPv6 address is not displayed in 'Start SSH' invitation

2016-03-03 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
ress if no IPv4 address could be found. Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik >From 46f274510e68bc3ce843a14b2c229ab30706d68d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:51:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] network-console: display IPv6 address to access installer system The

Bug#666399: s390-dasd fails to work with >20 devices visible (mostly in LPAR mode)

2016-02-26 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 06:22:30PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:34:02PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >

Bug#815918: dasdfmt: detect format status and improve handling

2016-02-25 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
already mapped, for example, from going back from the partitioner, the DASD cannot be low-level formatted. Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski --- dasd-config.c | 18 ++ debian/s390-dasd.templates | 7 +++ 2 files changed, 25 inse

Bug#815912: dasd: detect if a DASD is already configured

2016-02-25 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
online" again. The patch below enhances the detect_channels_driver() function to check if a configuration file exists, that means, if DASDs are already online and configured. Kind regards, Hendrik >From ba645de637b74de9a58e4296dae0f4bd6a785c07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner

Bug#815166: preseed/url: correctly handle IPv6 addresses

2016-02-19 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
password, IPv6, port, and domain Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik >From dbc8bc790c781530954d2b58b0050472bbaef354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:23:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] auto-install: correctly handle IPv6 addresses The auto-install does not prope

Bug#545906: Debian S390 Install Failed to create a file system during installer process

2016-02-17 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:46:58PM -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * HAND, RAY [2009-09-09 21:09]: > > Package: Partman-ext3 > > Version: 2.6.26-2 > > > > In the partition disks screen I get the error: > > > > The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of DASD 0.0.0300 (ECKD) > > failed. >

Bug#666399: s390-dasd fails to work with >20 devices visible (mostly in LPAR mode)

2016-02-16 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:34:02PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > For example, > > > > > > > > cio_ignore=all,!ipldev,!condev,!0.0.da00-0.0.da1

Bug#666399: s390-dasd fails to work with >20 devices visible (mostly in LPAR mode)

2016-02-14 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 05:46:39PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > > Honestly, I would propose a different approach to limit the DASD device > > available to the Debian installer. I believe that typical customer &

Bug#813506: zipl-installer: set up re-IPL to boot newly installed Debian/Linux

2016-02-12 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Philipp, On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 01:31:49AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 05:40:34PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > > > --- a/debian/zipl-installer.postinst >

Re: s390-zfcp: Not sure I want to send translators on this bunch of cryptic strings to translate

2016-02-08 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Christian, On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 07:22:19AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > A new package just appeared in the archive, namely s390-zfcp. > > It brings 29 new strings to translate in debconf templates but, let's > be realistic: do we really want translators to sweat on such cryptic > stuff

Bug#813506: zipl-installer: set up re-IPL to boot newly installed Debian/Linux

2016-02-08 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Philipp, On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 01:31:49AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 05:40:34PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > > --- a/debian/zipl-installer.postinst > > +++ b/debian/zipl-installer.postinst > > @@ -57,8 +57,5 @@ EOF > > sed -e 's

Bug#813519: s390/template-arch: set always_halt to false to allow reboots

2016-02-02 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch >From 6790a25873838a265282bf5e97fa36d21cfebfbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:24:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] templates-arch: reset always_halt to its default for s390 Remove the s390 specific defaults for always_halt and reset

Bug#813506: zipl-installer: set up re-IPL to boot newly installed Debian/Linux

2016-02-02 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 04:56:51PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > > Patches with changelog information will be added soon by me. > Attached patch to simply the call to zipl and chreipl using the in-target command. The in-target command prepares an environ

Bug#813519: s390/template-arch: set always_halt to false to allow reboots

2016-02-02 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: block -1 by 813506

Bug#813519: s390/template-arch: set always_halt to false to allow reboots

2016-02-02 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: rootskel Version: 1.113 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear maintainer, I work on some installer improvements for Linux on z Systems (s390). After the installation completed, the newly installed Linux instance is not booted; instead, the installer halts the system. The reason is a different

Bug#813506: zipl-installer: set up re-IPL to boot newly installed Debian/Linux

2016-02-02 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: zipl-installer Version: 0.0.30 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi, I have a small enhancement on the zipl-installer package to prepare and set up the re-IPL settings to boot into the newly installed Linux instance. To set up the re-IPL settings, a call to chreipl is required from within the

Bug#813121: qeth: layer2 and portno are not substituted in template

2016-01-29 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik >From 6a73bf95b59885fb484569ac2439057c3a90cbd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:18:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] qeth: substitute layer and port number in qeth/confirm template The layer and relative port number vari

Bug#813089: qeth/ctc: correct stack corruption for numerous qeth/ctc devices

2016-01-29 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
e a complete list of channel devices to be displayed to the user. Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner --- netdevice.c | 89 ++--- 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/netdevice.c b/netdevice.c index b8512fb..c886170 100

Bug#813033: qeth: ask for relative OSA port number

2016-01-28 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
rom: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:57:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] qeth: ask for the relative OSA port number Let the user specify the port number because this is required for particular OSA cards. Reported-by: Elisabeth Puritscher Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner --- netdevic

Bug#813030: zipl-installer: remove obsolete portname

2016-01-28 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: reassign -1 s390-netdevice Control: retitle -1 s390-netdevice/qeth: remove obsolete portname

Bug#813030: zipl-installer: remove obsolete portname

2016-01-28 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
regards, Hendrik >From 912031a56bb9271a0e8b4bbb90118bb6ae7fc72e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:09:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] qeth: remove portname The portname attribute is no longer necessary and will be removed soon. See also upstream kernel com

Bug#811391: finish-install.d/07speakup: remove superfluous 'fi' leftover

2016-01-18 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Control: tags -1 + patch Attaching patch. >From 71840fc0f7bcb9c5d80330bb8ccbc1b2e4a673e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:23:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] speakup: remove superfluous 'fi' Commit cd6e3cab78fc3 "Enable screen reader in

Bug#811391: finish-install.d/07speakup: remove superfluous 'fi' leftover

2016-01-18 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: finish-install Version: 2.58 Severity: normal Tags: d-i The d-i syslog contains this error message: Jan 14 15:40:18 finish-install: /usr/lib/finish-install.d/07speakup: line 95: syntax error: unexpected "fi" Correct shell syntax in finish-install.d/07speakup. Patch will follow. Thanks

Bug#808007: [PATCH] s390-dasd: check if DASD is already online

2015-12-16 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi, On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 05:59:23PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hendrik Brueckner (2015-12-15): > > Control: tags -1 + patch > > > > Attach a patch to check if the DASD is already online because > > trying to set a DASD online twice results in an error causing

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390

2015-12-16 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Dimitri, On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 07:33:56PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 15 December 2015 at 17:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hendrik Brueckner (2015-12-15): > >> Package: d-i.debian.org > >> Severity: normal > >> Tags: d-i > >> &g

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390

2015-12-16 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi! On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 06:07:23PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hendrik Brueckner (2015-12-15): > > Package: d-i.debian.org > > Severity: normal > > Tags: d-i > > > > Dear Debian Installer Team and Maintainers, > > > > I would like to cont

Bug#666399: s390-dasd fails to work with >20 devices visible (mostly in LPAR mode)

2015-12-16 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Philipp, Alexander (on CC) just reported ran into the same issue. His system has more than 20 DASDs and the dialog continues to show up. The triggers the special debconf return code and the "hardware-detection" dependency for this module is not satisfied. This reported when starting the par

Bug#806900: partman-multipath: correct mpath device detection and bindings

2015-12-16 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Hi Cyril! On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:06:01AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (2015-12-02): > > > Mathieu mentioned branches a while ago: > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/05/msg00271.html > > > > > > > > That's spot on, it's exactly what is needed in partma

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390 (patches)

2015-12-15 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
a beginner in Debian packaging, please review the Debian packaging files. Thank you in advance! Kind regards, Hendrik From b88cc8f54a3badfa1585a7d3d87d0bade3067211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:06:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] s390-zfcp: README

Bug#808041: s390-zfcp: Install Debian on FC-attached SCSI devices on s390

2015-12-15 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
very welcome! I am looking forward to discuss and work with you on the steps to make it available with the Debian Installer. Thank you very much! Kind regards, Hendrik -- Hendrik Brueckner brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com | IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Linux on z Sys

Bug#808007: [PATCH] s390-dasd: check if DASD is already online

2015-12-15 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
ediately. +Check if an DASD is already online and, if so, advance to the next +configuration step. (Closes: #808007) + + -- Hendrik Brueckner Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:41:55 +0100 + s390-dasd (0.0.32) unstable; urgency=medium * If no channel is found, exit cleanly. This allows s390-dasd t

Bug#806900: partman-multipath: correct mpath device detection and bindings

2015-12-02 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
, correct its location in the post-base-installer script. Below you can find a patch that solves both problems. Feedback is welcome. Thanks! Kind regards, Hendrik >From d4c73caff072a79bd6e4428480fc34951ca6d84c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:29:11 +0

Bug#806713: disk-detect/multipath: update checks for changed mpath alias names

2015-11-30 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
n Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hendrik Brueckner Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:17:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] disk-detect/multipath: update checks for changed mpath alias names The alias naming scheme for user friendly names has been changed from mpath[0-9] to mpath[a-z] a while ago. Update the disk-d

Bug#806443: disk-detect/multipath: default path selector is not loaded

2015-11-27 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 03:33:39PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 15:39 +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > [...] > > --- a/disk-detect.sh > > +++ b/disk-detect.sh > > @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ fi > >  db_get disk-detect/multipath/enable > >  if

Bug#806443: disk-detect/multipath: default path selector is not loaded

2015-11-27 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
workaround is to create the multipath.conf file with round-robin as default path selector. This might be a good choice for a jessie backport if it is required. Thanks and kind regards, Hendrik -- Hendrik Brueckner brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com | IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH L